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Zamboni, Thanks for two more great installments! Any chance you could post your edited version of mission 4? The changes you describe sound like good ones. I've only played with the editor a bit and don't yet trust myself to mess with the campaign missions :/

Great video, Fish. Inspires me to spend some time practicing on the more conventional instruments. It's so easy to become reliant on the HUD.

Laser energy can be detected, so lasing for the whole time of flight of your munition (which can be a long time from high altitude) gives the target plenty of warning and paints a big, "Here I am!!" in the sky. A mobile target may have time to hide or take other evasive action, like shoot back, and/or tell it's friends to.

Without HOTAS, press the desired mode button, or its keyboard equivalent, a second time to make it the SOI.

FOM usually stands for Figure of Merit, which is a measure or sensor accuracy. The CBU-97 is a Sensor Fused Weapon. Each Skeet deployed includes IR and laser sensors that help them find targets. I am guessing that the FOM setting (if it is a setting - I have not tried changing it) might be a way to affect the rules used by these sensors?

You will definitely need some type of programmable stick and throttle to fight, and I definitely agree with the other posters on Track IR - I resisted for a long time, but cannot imagine how I did without it for so long. Using the mouse for clicking all of the non-HOTAS controls in the cockpit is quite doable and realistic feeling. Get used to trimming often and using the autopilot. ALT HOLD mode keeps your plane at your set altitude (of course), but also maintains your bank, making it excellent for circling while you go heads down. Even without using the autopilot you will find that a nicely trimmed aircraft remains steady long enough for you to take your mouse hand off the stick to take care of other tasks. All very realistic, after all - in the real A-10 you still have a throttle and a stick but only two hands. To press the other buttons you're going to have to let go of one or the other!

Thank you - that makes the most sense.

No, just the opposite. JATAC is requesting you attack from 180-200, so your nominal attack heading would be 010.

Press RCTL-NUM0, then NUM4, and the view will toggle.

The A-10C does handle very nicely, but I would like to think that part of why we may be able to shoot approaches so well here has at least something to do with all those thousands of Falcon landings...

Good job, funkster, love watching stuff like this:thumbup: Just think how great it will be when the dynamic weather engine generates rain (or snow!). You are right - the atmosphere in DCS is just great.

Can't you do this by editing the coordinates of a mark point from the WAYPT page? (pressing LSK R9 first to switch from L/L to MGRS)

From the CDU STRINFO page, enter the waypoint number you wish to set as your steer point and press LSK L3. Or, enter the waypoint name (or even a mark point letter) into the scratchpad and press LSK R3.

An anchor point, or "bullseye", is used to help hide your location, and the locations of other friendly assets, from a listening enemy. Typically a common anchor point is designated for all friendly assets in a battle plan. AWACS and other units can then call out the location of spotted enemy units relative to the anchor point anonymously, for example. If AWACS instead called out the location of, say, a Mig-29 group relative to your location, it would be the same as AWACS telling the enemy pilots YOUR location.

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Are you perhaps taking off with a significant crosswind component? I have a lot of trouble with the plane pulling to one side during takeoff runs, but it always seems to coincide with a crosswind. I disengage NWS passing 50 KIAS, but the rudder seems to have little authority. It's almost like the effect is magnified on the ground - once I manage to get the wheels off the ground the rudder works better. I am thinking this might have something to do with the SAS - I know to turn if off for crosswind landings, but have not seen anything here, nor have I tried yet, to take off with yaw SAS disengaged. Need to try that...

Headed to the App Store now... :D

Very nicely executed, zam. Thanks for another excellent video and AAR!

Very nice work indeed - Thank You!

I always get yelled at, even after requesting and receiving acknowledgment of ground power disconnect and clearance to taxi. Maybe I'm doing something else wrong, but have read elsewhere this may be a bug, although of course a minor one, as well.

Yes- download the TC-1 map from the Downloads | Documentation section on the DCS home page.

It's the grid you are in. MP is just east of Nal'Chik...

The sequence of TAD map scales includes a "no map" step: 1:5M1:2M1:1M1:500KNO MAP1:250KNO MAP1:100K1:50K It's not a bug; it works as it does in the real A-10C.

I do not have access to any real life tactical pilotage charts but I can say the terrain in DCS is modeled very accurately. I regularly use Google Earth to check out mission zones and the terrain and structures are always rendered with great fidelity.

Nice job, zamboni. Thanks for taking the time to write it up and for uploading the ACMI file - this is very instructive.